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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Yves Gomes

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
National Executive Board Member

Yves Gomes is a freshman at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, set to graduate in 2019. Gomes serves as a National Executive Board Member and also of the Young Leaders Council Co-Chair of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Gomes spends his time volunteering for organizations that fight for immigrant rights and racial justice.

11:00am EDT

Community Tech in Practice: Building Community Wifi Networks MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HTeresa Basilio Gaztambide • Diana Nucera Decolonizing Family History through Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 125Chantal Shaffer Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims Reclaiming Science: What is community-based science? STATE HALL: Room 114Kieran Alessi • Mara Freilich • August Guang • Steph Yin Kit an` Kin - Cooking Class with the Family SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyAnya Peters and Peters Family

12:45pm EDT

Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story Film Screening (Lunch + Panel) STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BAlex Binder • Christopher Schiano • Jenn Schreiter • Lorenzo Serna Decolonize your Bod-tany with Queer Ecology STATE HALL: Room 116Moretta Browne • Edgar Flores Sharing Tools for Change: creating a more just and open city STATE HALL: Room 134Tara Eisenberg Swords into Plowshares: Reclaim the Bible for Healing & Justice STATE HALL: Room 135SueAnn Shiah

2:00pm EDT

Screening of New Detroit Documentary: Last Days of Chinatown STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry ANicole Macdonald Data-Driven Research for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 115Chelsea Barabas • Sharlyn Grace • Rodrigo Ochigame • Hannah Sassaman Disguising Data Against Ubiquitous Surveillance MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HPaola Mosso Shariah, Race, and American Islam: Case of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf STATE HALL: Room 118Alison Kysia War on Drugs is a War on Healing STATE HALL: Room 123Ifetayo Harvey • Magalie Lerman • La Pachamami Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters Propaganda Party for Housing Justice & Clean Water MCGREGOR: Room JNora Almeida • Lena Greenberg • Maryam Gunja • Jen Hoyer Data for Police Accountability STATE HALL: Room 114Camille Fassett • Jamie Garcia • Hamid Khan • Nadia Khan It`s Complicated: Healing Our Relationship with $ to Do More Good STATE HALL: Room 117Rhiannon Rhi Chester Young People Building a Culture of Consent in Technology MCGREGOR: Room CTahliyah Griffin • Shamash Lima • Jahtiek McKenzie • Nevaeh Rios • Maya Wagoner

4:00pm EDT

Fantasy Island: Decolonial Futures & Puerto Rican Response STATE HALL: Room 113Shey Rivera Ríos • Jo Cosme • Joel Rivera Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie Spady Dismantle Mass Incarceration Through Participatory Action Research STATE HALL: Room 118Eli Moore • Tamisha Walker An Online Platform for International Solidarity Movements STATE HALL: Room 115Micah Fedenko • Maimuna Touray Feeding Radical Movements STATE HALL: Room 131Tagan Engel • Tina Orlandini • Gabriela Álvarez

11:00am EDT

StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 134Noel Didla • Jayeesha Dutta • Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi • Yudith Nieto • Michael Premo Coding For Community STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Bettie • Darius • Keiyon • Tychichus • Tyree Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Scrapbook Detroit’s People and History MCGREGOR: Room CVassilis Jacobs • Debra Walker • Ingrid White Truly Accessible Spaces: Designing WITH Disabled Organizers STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Elea Chang • Melissa Chavez #OwningOurStories: Race, Power and Media STATE HALL: Room 131Manolia Charlotin • Teresa Basilio Gaztambide • Janine Jackson • Roberta Rael • Joseph Torres Cooperative Ecosystem: Lessons in Building Community Wealth STATE HALL: Room 113Margo Dalal • B. Anthony Holley • Meghan Sobocienski • Lucas Turner-Owens • Ed Whitfeld Decentralized Health Equity Model for LGBTQ+ Patients STATE HALL: Room 135Theodore Tinnell Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis Transforming Trauma: Youth-Led Social Justice Movements STATE HALL: Room 106Hasna Ghalib • Alex Kime • Ebere Oparaeke • Laila Pasha • Molly Pershin Raynor Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125S (she/her) • Eriel Deranger Local Opportunities to Preserve Net Neutrality STATE HALL: Room 123Sarah Morris • Hannah Sassaman Migration Justice in Canada-US Border Communities STATE HALL: Room 117Grace Wu • Julie Young From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman Networks of the Equitable Internet Initiative Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJanice Gates • Diana Nucera

12:45pm EDT

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans Perfection in Movement Spaces STATE HALL: Room 117Aiko Fukuchi • Teia McGahey Reflections on Learning Liberation: Breaking Bread & Getting Deep STATE HALL: Room 113N8 Mullen • Thomas Nikundiwe

2:00pm EDT

Divestin' from Capitalism, Using TimeBanks STATE HALL: Room 115Alice Bagley • Johanna James • Krystle Okafor • LaTierra Piphus • Jane Slaughter Policing Black Lives and Resistance Across Borders STATE HALL: Room 123Robyn Maynard • Leroi NewBold Reclaim Our Futures: Take Back Land & Housing STATE HALL: Room 134brandon king • Zach Murray • Devi Peacock • KP Pestaño • Denechia Powell • Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul The Art of Interviewing STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKeisha TK Dutes Black Teachers Matter: Turning the Tide of Black Teacher Loss STATE HALL: Room 131Natalia Bacchus • Diamonte Brown Liberate the Skies: Diaspora and the New Anti-Militarism STATE HALL: Room 114Farah Erzouki • Ali Issa • Samira Shifteh

4:00pm EDT

Capoeira Angola & Batucada of Michigan STUDENT CENTER: 020Kelvin Wyatt Fight Your Racist Camera STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DPatri Gonzalez-Ramirez • Jesus Villalba Food Fight STATE HALL: Room 118En Sawyer Lee • Julia Vallera Lifting as They Climbed: A Tour of Chicago Black Women Histories STATE HALL: Room 125Mariame Kaba • Essence McDowell • Kierra Verdun Piss on Pity: Radically Uprooting the Culture of Ableism STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement Dismantling Gender in Youth Spaces STATE HALL: Room 113Johanna Burgos • Nana Minder

6:00pm EDT

Our Radically Sober Futures STATE HALL: Room 118Sicily McRaven QTPOC Southerners Growing Food, Flowers, and Other STATE HALL: Room 131ACG • Alicia Bell • Brianna Daniels Strengthening Self Empowerment STATE HALL: Room 116Mariana Castañeda-Lopez • Deesha Narichania

10:00am EDT

We Are All Connected: Youth Bridging the Urban / Rural Divide STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Kendri Feliz • Emmanuel Garcia • Gabriel Martinez • Mary • Griselys Peña • Serenah Vaughan Hacking Capitalism: Divest, Manage Debt, and Ethical Money STATE HALL: Room 123Hadassah Damien Consciousness Raising & Solutions Along the Media Color Line STATE HALL: Room 127Kimberly Bellware • Sierra Council • Adeshina Emmanuel • Geoff Hing • Darryl Holiday Empower Our Social Justice Projects Using the Co-op Model STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • ana martina • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Sarah Reilly Food Stories Unwrapped: Decolonizing the White Gaze of Food Media STATE HALL: Room 113Serena Maria Daniels • Dorothy Hernandez • Sabiha Khan • Sarahlynn Pablo • Natalia Roxas Organizing Communities to Stop Library Closures STATE HALL: Room 115Kristy Cooper • Jami Thompson Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

11:45am EDT

Activism Is Not Criminal: Stop the Killings in the Philippines STATE HALL: Room 135Adrian Bonifacio • Joelle Eliza Lingat Community Storytelling: Amplifying Neighborhood Voices STATE HALL: Room 115Imani Mixon Radical Grandparents! An Intergenerational Conversation STATE HALL: Room 116Aiko Fukuchi • Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones • Myrtle Thompson-Curtis